James Joyce once claimed never to have met a bore, a consciousness-raising statement which passes the burden of failure on to the accuser: you will find a person boring only if you fail to look in sufficient detail, beyond surface generalities. In The Northern Clemency, an early contender for novel of the year, Philip Hensher looks in detail at a small group of people over a generation, and in doing so presents the great drama and inexhaustible wonder of ordinary life.
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